America Undercover
America Undercover is a series of documentaries that aired on the cable television network HBO from 1983 through 2006. Within the series are several sub-series, such as Autopsy, Real Sex, and Taxicab Confessions.
History
The series began in 1983 and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001, was later broadcast once per month. In 2006, episodes began being rebroadcast on A&E Network.Over the years, episodes have covered numerous subjects such as abortion, organized crime, and pedophilia. The show won several awards for the 1998 production of Strippers: The Naked Stages.
Episodes
- Hooker - Directed by Robert Niemack
- When Women Kill - Directed by Lee Grant
- The Nightmare of Cocaine - Directed by Fleming B. Fuller
- Toxic Time Bomb: The Fight Against Deadly Pollution - Directed by August Cinquegrana
- Acts of Violence - Directed by Imre Horvath
- Soldiers in Hiding - Directed by Malcolm Clarke
- UFO's: What's Going On? - Directed by Robert Guenette
- The Gift of Life - Directed by Bill Couturié
- And the Pursuit of Happiness - Directed by Louis Malle
- Kids in Crisis - Directed by Robert Niemack
- Kids in Sports: The Price of Glory - Directed by Dennis Lofgren
- Surveillance: No Place to Hide - Directed by Joseph Angier
- Drunk & Deadly: A Day on America's Highways - Directed by Robert Niemack
- Murder or Mercy: Five American Families - Directed by Terry Dunn Meurer
- Execution: Fourteen Days in May - Directed by Paul Hamann
- Confessions of an Undercover Cop - Directed by Chris Jeans
- Warning: Medicine May Be Hazardous to Your Health - Directed by Veronica L. Young
- Why Did Johnny Kill? - Directed by Robert Niemack
- Transplant - Directed by Vincent Stafford
- Into Madness - Directed by Susan Raymond
- Battered - Directed by Lee Grant
- Crack USA: County Under Siege - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
- One Year in a Life of Crime - Directed by Jon Alpert
- Convicts on the Street: One Year on Parole - Directed by Robert Niemack
- Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House - Directed by Alan Raymond
- Rape: Cries from the Heartland - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
- Attempted Murder: Confrontation - Directed by Tom Spain
- Death on the Job - Directed by Vince DiPersio and Bill Guttentag
- The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer - Directed by Arthur Ginsberg and Tom Spain
- Suicide Notes - Directed by Robert Niemack
- Asylum - Directed by Joan Churchill
- Abortion: Desperate Choices - Directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, and Albert Maysles
- My Mother's Murder - Directed by Charles C. Stuart
- Never Say Die: The Search for Eternal Youth - Directed by Antony Thomas
- Women on Trial - Directed by Lee Grant
- I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
- Gang War: Bangin' In Little Rock
- High on Crack Street: [Lost Lives in Lowell] - Directed by Jon Alpert, Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell
- The Celluloid Closet
- Fetishes - Directed by Nick Broomfield
- Dragtime - Directed by Patti Kaplan
- Thug Life in DC - Directed by Marc Levin
- Life Afterlife - Directed by Lisa F. Jackson
- Bellevue: Inside Out - Directed by Maryann DeLeo
- Blue Vinyl
- My Flesh and Blood
- Shelter Dogs
- Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
- ''Dealing Dogs''